Saturday, November 13, 2004

Study shows most attacks come from exploited PCs beloging to DSL or cable customers. CipherTrust, the e-mail security company, in a survey this month of more than 4 million pieces of e-mail, found that nearly all of the  phishing attacks came from about 1000 machines, mostly customers of DSL or cable modem services.  Close to 28 percent of the IP addresses used in the phishing attacks during the two-week survey were from U.S. computers. Another 17 percent of the IP addresses were South Korean, and another 8 percent were Chinese. 8:49:43 AM    comment []